Tag: existential loneliness

Roots Blown in the Wind

Roots Blown in the Wind

The feeling of not being able to find a corner of one's own on earth is perhaps one of the oldest and most subtle aches in human history. Rootlessness in literature is a state of existential coldness that goes beyond simply moving on a map or crossing a border. The separation of a person from the land of his birth, the streets he is familiar with or his native language is actually the exile of the soul within himself.